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Kommission führt neues Koodinierungsinstrument ein

02 February 2025
Table Europe
„Die EU sollte keine neuen, vagen Koordinierungsinstrumente einführen, das stellt den Prozess über echte Entscheidungen“, sagte der Chefökonom des Centre for European Reform, Sander Tordoir. Stattdessen müsse sich die EU darauf einigen, welche Sektoren sie retten wolle und dann die vielen Instrumente, die sie habe, gezielt einsetzen.

Starmer’s impossible choice: Trump’s America or reset with Europe

01 February 2025
The Telegraph
For what it is worth, analysis by the Centre for European Reform suggests that the UK economy is around 5.5pc smaller as a result of Brexit than it otherwise would have been. 

El ciclo económico de Europa ensombrece el camino para competir con China y Estados Unidos

01 February 2025
El Diario
“En Europa, el clima económico es sombrío, con un PIB que crece a un ritmo mediocre y mucho más lento que en EEUU y en Asia y que, en consecuencia, ejerce de lastre de ingresos personales y de retraimiento del poder adquisitivo de los europeos”. La cita encabeza un informe del Centre for European Reform (CER), think tank británico que emergió de la Tercera Vía del laborismo de Tony Blair, en los noventa, y que siempre se ha jactado de tener una visión paneuropea; incluso durante el último decenio de Brexit.

Why the Brexit debate will never die

31 January 2025
The New Statesman
So far the most convincing model for the overall cost to the economy has probably been that of the economist John Springford, who used a “weighted basket” of other countries to model how a counterfactual, remain-voting UK would have performed after 2016.

Europa als Halde für China-Produkte? Was wirklich eintritt, wenn Trump Zölle verkündet

31 January 2025
Die Welt
Chinas Auto-Subventionen stellen offenbar eine besondere Gefahr dar – vor allem für Deutschland. „Deutsche Unternehmen werden Schwierigkeiten haben, mit staatlich unterstützten chinesischen Firmen zu konkurrieren“, sagt CER-Ökonom Sander Tordoir. „Und wenn den deutschen Herstellern die Gewinne zur Finanzierung neuer Investitionen fehlen, drohen sie technologisch zurückzufallen.“

Quote du jour

31 January 2025
Politico
“If there’s no demand for our industry, nothing will happen.” Sander Tordoir, chief economist of think-tank the Centre for European Reform, speaking at the Brux Conference in Brussels on Thursday.
Ian Bond

This Is Not A Drill podcast with Gavin Esler: Deep Waters - Russia’s undersea information war

30 January 2025
In the latest episode of This Is Not A Drill, Gavin Esler discusses the threat to European infrastructure from undersea sabotage with Sophia Besch, a senior fellow in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. And to assess the wider threat from potential hybrid warfare operations we hear from Ian Bond, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform.

Protecting consumers is not anti-growth

30 January 2025
Bloomberg
"The question is whether the way authorities look at competition should change depending on whether you're looking at old or new industries,” says Zach Meyers of the Centre for European Reform. “When thinking about a typical monopolist, you think about them sitting back, having the quiet life and overcharging consumers. But when you're thinking about how tech works, competition doesn't really work like that — they're competing on investment and innovation.”

Lord Frost: Accepting EU’s trade scheme proposal isn’t anti-Brexit

27 January 2025
The Times
Anton Spisak, an economist and associate fellow at the Centre for European Reform, think-tank, questioned its benefit to the UK economy saying that the number of British companies whose products had included significant elements imported from Pem countries was likely to be very small.

Russische trollen duiken op in Duitsland

27 January 2025
Het Financieele Dagblad
De techbedrijven vinden een gewillig oor bij Donald Trump. Die kan op verschillende manieren druk uitoefenen op Europa, merkt Zach Meyers van het Centre for European Reform op. Denk aan dreigen met heffingen, het beperken van energieleveringen, het straffen van Europese bedrijven in de VS of het in twijfel trekken van Amerikaanse steun aan de Navo.

‘I sense Brussels is ready to be bold and ambitious’: Hope mixes with anger on Brexit’s fifth anniversary

26 January 2025
The Observer
John Springford, an economist at the Centre for European Reform, says: “There is little disagreement among economists that Brexit has hurt trade and investment – the argument is only about how much. The Office for Budget Responsibility says it sees no reason to change its view that in the long run the ­economy will be around 4% smaller than if Britain had stayed in.
“The data, which shows sizeable shortfalls in goods trade and ­investment compared to other advanced economies, suggests it is right to do so.”

Europese troepen in Oekraïne is een ‘non-starter’

26 January 2025
BNR Nieuwsradio
Europa kan geen militaire rol van betekenis spelen in Oekraïne, omdat Vladimir Poetin nog steeds denkt aan de winnende hand te zijn, aldus Ruslanddeskundige Ian Bond van het Center for European Reform, een Britse denktank gespecialiseerd in Europese vraagstukken. Europa loopt zich weliswaar warm om een grotere rol te spelen in het Oekraïne-conflict nu de Amerikanen zich mogelijk terugtrekken, Bond noemt dit een ‘‘non-starter’'. 
CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Trump's inauguration: What's next?

CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Trump's inauguration: What's next?

Luigi Scazzieri, Ian Bond, Constanze Stelzenmueller
24 January 2025
Luigi Scazzieri, Ian Bond and Constanze Stelzenmueller discuss Donald Trump's inauguration.

Britain’s government lacks a clear Europe policy

23 January 2025
The Economist
The economic benefit for Britain of such a package may not seem that large: the Centre for European Reform think-tank, puts it at between 0.3% and 0.7% of GDP. 

Europe could be a casualty under Donald Trump’s promised American ‘golden age’

22 January 2025
Fortune Magazine
“In his first term, Trump was obsessed with the U.S. trade deficit with the EU. In his view, this is no different (other than being smaller) to the US concerns about its trade deficit with China,” Zach Meyers, assistant director of the Centre for European Reform, told Fortune. 

Het is te vroeg om de Verenigde Staten af te schrijven

22 January 2025
de Volkskrant
Europa moet zelf beschermingswallen tegen China opwerpen. Dat kan het doen door net als de VS importheffingen in te stellen en ‘koop Europees’-clausules in nationale subsidieregelingen op te nemen, zoals Sander Tordoir en Brad Setser voorstellen in hun recente paper over de tweede China-schok.
 
Can EU defence bonds strengthen Europe’s defences?

Can EU defence bonds strengthen Europe’s defences?

21 January 2025
Encompass
Europeans urgently need to strengthen their militaries. However, funding European defence is a major challenge.

Best of 'frenemies': Trump's relationship with Europe this time may be very different

21 January 2025
BBC News
Ian Bond, the deputy director for the Centre for European Reform, believes the country [Germany] will remain "top of Trump's (European) hit list."

Autos nur der Start: Wie die deutsche Industrie durch China gefährdet wird und welche Lösungen es gibt

20 January 2025
Frankfurter Rundschau
Deutschland hat durch die stark steigenden Industrieexporte Chinas weltweit am meisten zu verlieren. Zu diesem Schluss kommt eine neue Studie der britischen proeuropäischen Denkfabrik Centre for European Reform. Darin werden vor allem zwei Herausforderungen genannt, die aus Sicht Deutschlands ein Umdenken erfordern: Zum einen die Wettbewerbsstärke Chinas in Industriezweigen, in denen die heimische Wirtschaft bislang führend war, wie der Autoindustrie.

Britain's foreign secretary braces for the second Trump age

20 January 2025
The New Yorker
“There’s definitely a lot of disappointment in how the Labour government has approached the EU and Brussels,” Luigi Scazzieri, of the Centre for European Reform, told me. “Essentially, there’s little to discuss with the EU until the UK internally sorts out what it wants as a package, and that’s not happened yet,” Scazzieri said.